Spontaneous motor seizures of rats with kainate-induced epilepsy: Effect of time of day and activity state

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-57

  Hellier, Jennifer L ^a   Dudek, F Edward ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epileptogenesis; Kainic acid; Limbic system; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DARKNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; KAINIC ACID; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0032903577     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(98)00127-2     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Avoli, M., Gloor, P., 1981. Effects of transient functional depression of the thalamus on spindles and on bilateral synchronous epileptic discharges of feline generalized penicillin epilepsy. Epilepsia 22, 443-452.
2. Bazil, C.W., Walczak, T.S., 1997. Effects of sleep and sleep stage on epileptic and non-epileptic seizures. Epilepsia 38, 56-62.
3. Ben-Ari, Y., 1985. Limbic seizures and brain damage produced by kainic acid: mechanisms and relevance to human temporal lobe epilepsy. Neuroscience 14, 375-403.
4. Bertram, E.H., Cornett, J.F., 1994. The evolution of a rat model of chronic spontaneous limbic seizures. Brain Res. 661, 157-162.
5. Buckmaster, P.S., Dudek, F.E., 1997a. Network properties of the dentate gyrus in epileptic rats with hilar neuron loss and granule cell axon reorganization. J. Neurophysiol. 77, 2685-2696.
6. Buckmaster, P.S., Dudek, F.E., 1997b. Neuron loss, granule cell reorganization, and functional changes in the dentate gyrus of epileptic kainate-treated rats. J. Comp. Neurol. 385, 385-404.
7. Cavalheiro, E.A., Leite, J.P., Bortolotto, Z.A., Turski, W.A., Ikonomidou, C., Turski, L., 1991. Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures. Epilepsia 32, 778-782.
8. Crespel, A., Baldy-Moulinier, M., Coubes, P., 1998. The relationship between sleep and epilepsy in frontal and temporal lobe epilepsies: practical and physiopathologic considerations. Epilepsia 39, 150-157.
9. Engel, J., 1989. Seizures and Epilepsy. F.A. Davis, Philadelphia.
10. Gotze, W., Kubicki, St., Munter, M., Teichmann, J., 1967. Effect of physical exercise on seizure threshold. Dis. Nerv. Syst. 22, 664-667.
11. Hellier, J.L., Patrylo, P.R., Buckmaster, P.S., Dudek, F.E., 1998. Recurrent spontaneous motor seizures after repeated low-dose systemic treatment with kainate: assessment of a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Res. 31, 73-84.
12. Hopkins, A., 1995. The causes of epilepsy, the risk factors for epilepsy and the precipitation of seizures. In: Hopkins, A., Shorvon, S., Cascino, G. (Eds.), Epilepsy, 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall Medical, London, pp. 59-85.
13. Janz, D., 1962. The grand mal epilepsies and the sleeping-waking cycle. Epilepsia 3, 69-109.
14. Janz, D., 1974. Epilepsy and the sleeping-waking cycle. In: Vinken, P.J., Bruyn, G.W. (Eds.), The Epilepsies. In: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, vol. 15. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 457-490.
15. Kellaway, P., 1985. Sleep and epilepsy. Epilepsia 26 (Suppl.), 15-30.
16. Livingston, S., Berman, W., 1973. Participation of epileptic patients in sports. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 224, 236-238.
17. McNamara, J.O., 1986. Kindling model of epilepsy. In: Delgado-Escueta, A.V., Ward, A.A., Woodbury, D.M., Porter, R.J. (Eds.), Advances in Neurology, vol. 44. Raven Press, New York, pp. 303-318.
18. Meierkord, H., 1994. Epilepsy and sleep. Curr. Opin. Neurol. 7, 107-112.
19. Nadler, J.V., 1981. Kainic acid as a tool for the study of temporal lobe epilepsy. Life Sci. 29, 2031-2042.
20. Nakken, K.O., Bjorholt, P.G., Johannessen, S.I., Loyning, T., Lind, E., 1990. Effect of physical training on aerobic capacity, seizure occurrence, and serum level of antiepileptic drugs in adults with epilepsy. Epilepsia 31, 88-94.
21. Niedermeyer, E., 1996. Primary (idiopathic) generalized epilepsy and underlying mechanisms. Clin. Electroencephalogr. 27, 1-21.
22. Patrylo, P.R., Dudek, F.E., 1998. Physiological unmasking of new glutamatergic pathways in the dentate gyrus of hippocampal slices from kainate-induced epileptic rats. J. Neurophysiol. 79, 418-429.
23. Quigg, M., Straume, M., Menaker, M., Bertram, E.H., 1998. Temporal distribution of partial seizures: comparison of an animal model with human partial epilepsy. Ann. Neurol. 43, 748-755.
24. Racine, R.J., 1972. Modification of seizure activity by electrical stimulation: II. Motor seizures. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 32, 281-294.
25. Roth, D.L., Goode, K.T., Williams, V.L., Faught, E., 1994. Physical exercise, stressful life experience, and depression in adults with epilepsy. Epilepsia 35, 1248-1255.
26. Shouse, M.N., Dittes, P., Langer, J., Nienhuis, R., 1992. Ontogeny of feline temporal lobe epilepsy. II: Stability of spontaneous sleep epilepsy in amygdala-kindled kittens. Epilepsia 33, 789-798.
27. Shouse, M.N., Langer, J.V., Alcalde, O.G., Szymusiak, R.S., 1994. Ontogeny of feline temporal lobe epilepsy. III: Spontaneous sleep and arousal disorders in amygdala-kindled kittens. Epilepsia 35, 1289-1298.
28. Shouse, M.N, Martins da Silva, A., Sammaritano, M., 1996. Circadian rhythm, sleep and epilepsy. J. Clin. Neurophysiol. 13, 32-50.
29. Wuarin, J.-P., Dudek, F.E., 1996. Electrographic seizures and new recurrent excitatory circuits in the dentate gyrus of hippocampal slices from kainate-treated epileptic rats. J. Neurosci. 16, 4438-4448.